getting near this item on my to do list…any new developments on a simple way to do this both the way mentioned previously and/or syncing user roles to member type. editor/username, contributor/username, customtype/username…

I’ll be working on this in a few weeks for my upcoming community site, which needs separate account types – essentially for those users creating content, and those users looking for content.

They’ll need to have completely different permissions and profiles – for example, the creative/content producing members are showcasing their work, while the other user types are searching for them and offering them work etc.

Hi Everyone – I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for but this is what I did! And NO coding required! lol

Under Buddypress Componet Setup enable the Group Settings. Now go to your profile page and set up as many groups as you like. Then use the Buddy Press Registrations Groups the author page is this – http://hardlyneutral.com/wordpress-plugins/ this will have the groups show up on the registration page and they will be asked to select which group they are a FAN of.

If you want you can go to the Editor Page or your FTP or Cpanel for that Plugin and on this page: buddypress-registration-groups-1/includes/bp-registration-groups.php scroll down to you see where it says Fan of and check one or more areas of interest and chance it to whatever your website needs are.

I hope this helps.

Another great plugin is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-filter/ When you put brackets [ ] around any word in your profile it makes it a link to all other members that have that word or phrase linked. So when you click on it all members with that link come up on a list.
Here is a example I use on my directions page for creating their profile.

@beraike22, do u have a working example we can see? also I’m having issues with that plugin, when I enabled it, it seems like I would have to indeed modify it to show some plugins when i’m signed in. The problem with that is for troubleshooting purpose I can’t not be logged in, thus I want to test this out when asked to register or join. can you give me a bit more detail on how to achieve multiple profile types upon registration?

did you get your different user types/roles in the members slug ever working (as per your thread about different profiles for different user types)? Just before I start something that cannot be accomplished……
If you have I would be glad if you give me some hints or even share some code.
Sascha.